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Shawn Goh Chin Siang Receives the Silver A' Design Award for The Taste of Heritage Instant Coffee in Packaging Design
Shawn Goh Chin Siang recognized for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ The Taste of Heritage Instant Coffee by Shawn Goh Chin Siang, designed for Hai Soon Leong Sdn. Bhd, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About The Taste of Heritage Instant Coffee
The design was inspired by the client’s background – a family business, from generation to generation. In order to preserve and pass on the taste, the product ‘The Taste of Heritage’ was launched. It also serves as a symbol of Malaysian tourism, so the designer came up with the concept of preserving the cultural heritage, incorporating the client’s ideas, integrated the long-standing cultures of various ethnic groups into the design to make more people understand Malaysian culture and be enthusiastic about Malaysian Art.
About Shawn Goh Chin Siang
Shawn Goh grew up in his grandfather's home, where he was exposed to art from a young age. Despite struggling with his grades in school, he was encouraged by his mother to pursue his passion for drawing and eventually attended art school. However, he faced setbacks when he was unable to obtain his diploma due to technical issues and struggled to find work in the field of design. Undeterred, he decided to start his own design company and eventually became one of the top 10 brand designers in Malaysia.
Award Record
With this recognition, Shawn Goh Chin Siang is a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2020 - 2021 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Packaging Design Award
The A' Packaging Design Award is an international packaging competition that recognizes outstanding packaging designs by talented packaging designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. Awarded packaging designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/packaging
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/123769
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/123769
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!123769
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/162972
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Taste of Heritage Instant Coffee
- Function
- Instant Coffee
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Lavender, Dim Gray, Steel Blue, Light Coral and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Hai Soon Leong Sdn. Bhd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shawn Goh Chin Siang
- Country
- Malaysia
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #123769
Credits
- Team
- Shawn Goh, Eric Liyao and Packaging ：Jayce Hee
- Image Credits
- Shawn Goh Design Lab. Sdn Bhd., 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The packaging designs vary for its 3 flavours. The designer wants to present the vanishing local heritage in the designs. Different images are on both sides of the package: Peking Opera for Chinese culture; peacock for Indian and Wayang kulit for Malay. Each package shows precious cultural arts of respective ethnic groups with multicultural integration on the left. The unique Malaysian batik pattern is cleverly tied in with the overall design to complete its exclusive local taste.
- Inspiration
- After having a deep understanding of the product, the designer instinctively associates the taste with the 3 main races, and realizes that it’s hard and rare to find any product which can perfectly represent Malaysia. We are experiencing the vanishing of cultural heritage. In order to preserve local cultural heritage, the designer combines the culture and art of each ethnic group with its authentic ethnic styles.
- Research
- The designer discovered that certain precious cultural heritages of various ethnic groups are gradually vanishing. Arts that could be found everywhere are now nowhere to be found. For the sake of our future generations, he decided to preserve these cultural heritages so that the future generations can enjoy, benefit and learn from the legacy of the past. While searching for the information, he kept recalling his previous experience and restore it with drawings.
- Challenge
- Since the design concept of this project is about the Malaysian cultural heritage, plenty of vibrant colours would be applied and that had imposed difficulty on printing. However, as the saying goes, ‘where there’s a will, there’s a way.’ The designer managed to find a solution with the help of his partner.
- Realization and Technology
- The net weight of the 3 packaging is 450g. In consideration of the uniqueness of the style, the designer chose aluminum foil matt to match with the pantone colour used on the package. In order to reserve the aroma of coffee and to avoid the direct sunshine, aluminum foil glossy was used for the inner package.
- Operation and Interaction
- The product is a collaboration between the company and Pulau Langkawi Tourism Bureau, to promote the development of the local tourism. The designer hopes to make the place more well-known through the introduction of this aromatic local product to the international markets.
- Project Duration and Location
- Project began in June 2020 and completed in August 2020, exhibited at Malaysia on first quarter in 2020.
- Specifications
- The big packaging measures 24.9cm x 17.9cm x 7cm and the small one measures 4cm x 16.2cm
- Keywords
- Malaysia, Malaysia Culture, Branding, Packaging Design, Coffee
